Quick Links: Monday, September 23rd

The Gadgeteer reviews the new Zayo Pocket PC. Read CNET column on the true significance of the Archos Jukebox Multimedia 20. Read ZDnet review of Fujifilm’s new 3.3 megapixel camera, the FinePpix F601. Read Amazon

Networked Spy Cams

Tom’s Hardware looks at network-based digital cameras like the D-Link DCS-1000W, which connects to a your wireless LAN via 802.11b and can be used for surveillance anywhere within range. Who you spy on is your business. Read Amazon

IDE Hard Drive Roundup

X-bit Labs rates 13 different IDE hard disk drives. Interestingly enough, no particular hard drive dominates more than a handful of the benchmark tests. Read

Logitech Hits Back

Feeling the heat from Microsoft, Logitech’s introduced the MX Series, a line of stylish new mice that includes the MX700, a very cool looking silver and black cordless optical mouse. Read Amazon

First Look at the Zire

Palm’s Smartphone

A smartphone from Palm is on its wayl that looks like it’s designed to compete with Handspring’s Treo. The Tungsten W, as it’s rumored to be named, will run on the GPRS network, have a 320 x 320 color screen, and 16MB of RAM. Palm Infocenter has a sneakpeak. Read

iPod Clone From Samsung

Samsung’s come out with its own iPod clone. The Yepp YP-900 comes with the same 10GB Toshiba 1.8-inch hard disk that comes in the iPod, but uses USB 2.0 for file-transfers rather than FireWire. Read

Home Theater on the Cheap

TechTV rates sub-$400 home theater setups that come complete with a DVD player, five speakers, and a subwoofer all in a box. Their pick: Panasonic’s SC-HT75, which is just $330 over at Amazon. Read Amazon

Getting Your PC to Work With a Universal Remote

ExtremeTech guide to setting up your PC so that it’ll work with any universal remote, so that it’ll work with the rest of your home entertainment rig. Read

iPod for Windows

Rio’s Sporty New Line

SONICblue has a new line of Rio MP3 players aimed at the sports enthusiast, the S10 and the S30S. Both come with 64MB of RAM (expandable to 192MB), and the S30S even comes with an FM tuner. Read Amazon

Enter the Zayo

Setting it Upright

A stylish new laptop docking station from Sherpaq called the Oyster. The laptop pops in completely unfolded and upright, so that the screen is at eye level. All your cables are hidden in back in a rear storage bay. Read

Now You Can Drop That French Class

Further undermining the already precarious state of foreign language instruction in the United States: new software from IBM for the Pocket PC that translates English text into one of four languages (French, Italian, German, and Spanish), and then actually pronounces the translated text for you. Read Amazon

CNET Reviews the Archos Multimedia Jukebox

CNET review of one of the hottest gadgets around right now, the 20GB Archos Multimedia Jukebox, which can play MP3s, shoot video, take digital photos or store them from your digital camera. This veritable Swiss Army Knife of gadgets gets an Editor’s Choice from them. Read

Japanese Gadget Watch: WiFi-enabled Television

First Look at the iPAQ H5000

InfoSync’s got the first look at HP’s new iPAQ H500 series of Pocket PCs. Wireless is the key feature of this series, with one model having integrated GPS, another integrated WLAN and a third integrated GSM/GPRS. Some models will come with biometric fingerprint scanners as well. Read

The Persistence of Memory

The New York Times tries to make sense of the plethora of options out there now for data storage. Read

Some Light Typing

Microsoft Goes Wireless

Microsoft to enter the wireless networking hardware market in the coming weeks, with a bunch of new 802.11b products, including a wireless base station, and wireless adapters and notebook cards. Curiously, none of these products are designed to work with the Xbox. Read